THE MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1909.
Medford daily Tribune
Official Paper of the City of Medl'ord.
Published everv pvetiirm except Sunday.
MEDFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
George Putnam, Editor and Manager.
Admitted as Second-Class Matter iu the Postof f ice at
Medford, Oregon.
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TODAY'S WEATHER MKLUIOI tun.
Cool, possible light frost tonight. Wednesday, fair and warm.
A rare and salubrious climate soil of remarkable teHiUly
beitutiful scenery-mountains ston-,1 with coul, .opper and gold
extensive forests-streams stocked with speckled beauties fame in
abundanoe-a contented, progressive people-such is -he Rogue
River Valley. ' '" ,
i m.. umnerature 55 flegree
Average yoarly preoipitatien
. . . 21 incites
Tin: cow si st movement
But these figures are more imposing on paper than the
laud will justify as the possible home of a large population.
By irrigation many thousands of these acres,, now prac
tically a desert, will yet be made fertile; by drying up or
draining the immense swamp areas iu some of the older
states another large area will be eventually made available.
The day-of "free land," however, in the golden west, a cry
once so attractive to the immigrant or to the settler from
the older states, has practii-ally passed. Much of the land
yet unappropriated may be free enough, but it will require
wealth to make it productive.
s' The United States, as far as regards the opportunities
it offers the landless, is at the close of its first great era.
The eras to come may be better in some respects, but they
will be different. There aVe no more boundless areas of fer
tile, well watered soil awa iting the settler. The day of free
land is over.
tT WOMEN ONLY KNEW
What a Heap of Happiness It Would
Bring to Medford Homes.
The colonist rales in effect during March and April
; brought 711,111 hoineseekers into the west and northwest.
Of these 51,'JOli came over the Hill lines and 19,935 over
the Ilarriman lines. The increase over the Hill lines oyer
a VPflJ ago is 50 per cent and the increase over the Ilarri
man lines 100 per cent.
To Oregon points there came over the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation and 'Southern Pacific lines 5-1M colon
ists as against 31 (ill a year ago. Of course this does
not include those coming to Oregon points through the
Hill gateways, probably as many more. For northwest
points the ilarriman lines carried 1 '2,000 people as
against (853 a year ago.
Advertising is held responsible for the increased im
migration, and the results from this advertising campaign
are just beginning to be felt. A still greater influx of
hoineseekers is looked for this autumn. Concerning the
colonist movement, K O. McCortnick, assistant traffic!
director of the Ifarrinuin lines, says:
"The farmers are beginning to believe the stories of
great agricultural and. fruit yields in the west and north
west which were at first but a fairy tale to them. Then,
too, tlie vast numbers of farmers who have been settled
on homes during the past few years are writing letters
back east all Hie lime urging their relatives and friends;
to come and share in the golden returns of intelligent j
effort iu the country west of the Rockies. All of these
things have their effect and you may expect to see the rush ;
of honiebuilders continue from now on until the great do-1
main of which I speak has a fair ipiota of population." ,
And if this is true of the farmer, how much truer it is of
the eastern fruit grower, who wears his life away produc-j
ing one crop of inferior fruit by three years of constant i
effort when a ouartcr of the effort insures him certain
profits iu such a natural fruit section as the Rogue River,
valley !
mi-: eh. i or "'';; i,ad" oyeu.
Hard to do housework with an ach
ing back.
Brings you hourse of misery at leisure
or at work. 4
If women only know the cause that
Backache pains come from sick ked-.
noys,
'Would save much needless woe.
I Doan's Kidney Til's cure sick kM
i nevs.
that I was unable to do any housework.
The kidney secretions were irregular
and caused me much annoyance. My
back pained me intensely and when
stooping or lifting I had sharp twinges
in my loins. My health was mueh run
own, and at times I felt very miserable.
t, tt : j mil. I. l. t .
IJUNH B AIUUDJI WDID UlUUglllf lj
my attention and I procured a box at (
Haskins' drug store. They helped me
from the first. I continued and war
sooa entirely eured. I have recommend
ed Doan 's Sidney Pills to other suffer
era."
For sale by nil dealers. Price 50 cents.
f'ostcr-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.. sole
Medford people endorse this:
Mrs. J. 1. n.'iutiaum, corner Twtlfth ' agents for the Un:ted States,
and C streets. .Medford, Or., says: "I J Remember the name Doan 's
suffered so severely from kidney troublo ! take no other.
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The original thirteen states bulk rather small on the a
map of the I'niled States. As respects population, not
withstanding the enormous growth of the country since
the revolution, the addum; of stale alter slate to the orig
inal I'nited Colonics, ami star after star to the American
flag, (he old thirteen still number about one-third of the
entire SO.000.000 people of the Union, savs the New York
"World.
Another third, according to the bureau of statistics of
the department of commerce and labor, live in the states
created from the territory ceded to the common Union by
the original states. This is the region known for half a
century as the west, which has always been a relative term
according to the period in which it was used. The other
third of the population live in what were originally known
as the Louisiana Purchase, the Oadsden Purchase and
other areas added by purchase or annexation. The center
of population, following the star of empire westward, has
passed over Ohio and now halts in southern Indiana.
It is interesting to learn from the statistics furnished
by the bureau that in 1908 there were still 754.805,000 acres
of unappropriated and unreserved land. Of this nearly
one-half is in Alaska, and its value is yet to be determined.
In Nevada there are 61,177,000 acres of this unnppropriat--j
t.j iuw0,, 4fi m.r)00 acres, in New Mexico 44-.
Gond Goods Moderately
Priced at
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Including such goods as
Hosiery, Ladies' Men's, &
Misses' underwear, Plain
and Fancy China House
Furnishing Goods etc.
In fact the only place in
Medford where you can
get just what, you need,
and get your money back
if it is not satisfactory or
just as it is represented.
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One Week
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FRIDAY
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Latest Noyel
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APPLES ANTJ PEARS AND ALL KINDS OF
FRUIT AND QRNAMENTAL TREES.
YAKIMA VALLEY NURSERY
Largest Commercial Nursery in the Pacific North
west. Not in the combine. Competes with all first
( class nurseries.
L. E. HOOVER Agent
MEDFORD, OREGON
FOR SALE
80 acres of best farming land In Rogue River val
ley, all free soil and under irrigation ditch, with deed
right to water. Two miles from railroad station, quar
ter mile from schoolltouse. on rural delivery route.
Land now in alfalfa and grain. Will make an ideal
orchard.
Price and terms reasonable. For information call at
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